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Patrol Missions to chase air contacts (CAP)? - 11/10/2016 10:47:20 PM

Cooperbrad

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I can't seem to get my Aircraft patrol missions with AAW to work properly. I set up a rectangle as my prosecution zone and a line (2 points) as my patrol, getting the rp correctly in the mission dialog. My aircraft never leave the patrol when I have hostile (or any) bogey's show up in my prosecution zone. I have seen some you-tube videos which use this method as CAP and for the life of me I can't figure out what I am doing wrong.

If I manually F3 a path into the prosecution zone, the aircraft will fly there and then show a plot line back to my patrol line once it reach the destination I set. It seems like the prosecution zone is never recognized but I can assure you I have placed the four point rectangle into the mission page under the prosecution zone entry box.

Any ideas or know of a check list for me?

Thanks

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RE: Patrol Missions to chase air contacts (CAP)? - 11/11/2016 2:36:04 AM

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have you got 'Investigate contacts outside the patrol area' checked?

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RE: Patrol Missions to chase air contacts (CAP)? - 11/11/2016 3:44:46 AM

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Yes I have "Investigate contacts outside of patrol area". Sometimes the flights g out into prosecution area and then return to patrol area and show a plot line while going back to patrol spot. If I hit F3 then the plot line disappears and the flight will go back into prosecution area again. Very strange.

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RE: Patrol Missions to chase air contacts (CAP)? - 11/11/2016 9:50:21 AM

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Try setting up a completely new patrol area:

-use a rectangle for your patrol box. Should work with a line but a larger one will help see what's going on.
-set up a prosecution zone at least twice the size of the patrol box and at least twice the range of you A2A missiles, again just to help see what's going on
-run a hostile across the corner of the prosecution zone, your AC should respond and then back off when the hostile leaves the zone
-run another hostile into the prosecution zone and let him loiter near the edge and see what happens.

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RE: Patrol Missions to chase air contacts (CAP)? - 11/11/2016 5:22:18 PM

Cooperbrad

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Thanks. I got it to work. Not sure exactly why but I also shut down everything else I had running on computer.

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